The King of Torts

Author	: John Grisham
Publisher	: Doubleday
Release Date	: 2003-02-04
ISBN 10	: 0385508042
Pages	: 310 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book The King of Torts written by John Grisham and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king of torts...

The King Of Torts

Author	: John Grisham
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2010-04-21
ISBN 10	: 9781407059136
Pages	: 498 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book The King Of Torts written by John Grisham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clay Carter has been working in The Office of the Public Defender for too long and he dreams of better things. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it's just another of the many senseless murders that hit Washington D.C. every week. But as he digs deeper, Clay stumbles upon a conspiracy too horrifying to believe. A pharmaceutical giant has been secretly and illegally testing a new drug on addicts - one that helps stop addiction, but which drives them to random acts of violence. Overnight, Clay becomes a celebrity among lawyers and a national media figure. But as the financial stakes rise, so does the danger... _______________________________________ 'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent 'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction' - Jodi Picoult 'The best thriller writer alive' - Ken Follett 'John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers' - Telegraph 'Grisham is a superb, instinctive storyteller' - The Times 'Grisham's storytelling genius reminds us that when it comes to legal drama, the master is in a league of his own.' - Daily Record 'Masterful - when Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they're not just alive, they're pulsating' - Mirror 'A giant of the thriller genre' - TimeOut

LIFE

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1954-10-18
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 162 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1954-10-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Writing Genre Fiction

Author	: H. Thomas Milhorn
Publisher	: Universal-Publishers
Release Date	: 2006-03
ISBN 10	: 9781581129182
Pages	: 364 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (811 users)

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Download or read book Writing Genre Fiction written by H. Thomas Milhorn and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years ago, after many years of writing nonfiction, I decided to write a novel-a medical thriller in the mold of Robin Cook, Michael Crichton, and Michael Palmer. The problem was that, although I knew how to write and had received a number of awards for nonfiction works, I didn't know the how to write fiction. So, before putting fingers to keyboard I did a thorough search of the literature, which included reading numerous books and hundreds of website articles. What I discovered was that there simply wasn't one good source from which to learn the craft of writing genre fiction. "Writing Genre Fiction: A Guide to the Craft" is the book I was looking for when I set out on my quest to learn how to write fiction. It is an attempt to share what I learned from my research. It covers the six key elements of genre fiction; the various genres and subgenres; a large number of genre-fiction writing techniques; plot, subplots, and parallel plots; structure; scene and sequel; characterization; dialogue; emotions; and body language. It also covers additional information about copyrighting and plagiarism, where to get ideas, manuscript formatting and revision, and query letters and synopses. In addition, an appendix covers a large number of grammar tips.

Uncertain Causation in Tort Law

Author	: Miquel Martín-Casals
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2015-11-19
ISBN 10	: 9781107128361
Pages	: 351 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (71 users)

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Download or read book Uncertain Causation in Tort Law written by Miquel Martín-Casals and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discussion of causal uncertainty in tort liability shows the important normative, epistemological and procedural implications of the various proposed solutions, and will be of interest to legal scholars, legal philosophers and advanced tort law students.

Blood in the Water

Author	: Walter Champion
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2021-06-22
ISBN 10	: 9781793652133
Pages	: 223 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (936 users)

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Download or read book Blood in the Water written by Walter Champion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the phenomenon of mass tort litigation in the light of corporate greed.

The Unelected

Author	: James R. Copland
Publisher	: Encounter Books
Release Date	: 2020-09-15
ISBN 10	: 9781641771214
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (417 users)

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Download or read book The Unelected written by James R. Copland and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is highly polarized around elections, but unelected actors make many of the decisions that affect our lives. In this lucid history, James R. Copland explains how unaccountable agents have taken over much of the U.S. government apparatus. Congress has largely abdicated its authority. “Independent” administrative agencies churn out thousands of new regulations every year. Courts have enabled these rulemakers to expand their powers beyond those authorized by law—and have constrained executive efforts to rein in the bureaucratic behemoth. No ordinary citizen can know what is legal and what is not. There are some 300,000 federal crimes, 98 percent of which were created by administrative action. The proliferation of rules gives enormous discretion to unelected enforcers, and the severity of sanctions can be ruinous to citizens who unwittingly violate a regulation. Outside the bureaucracy, private attorneys regulate our conduct through lawsuits. Most of the legal theories underlying these suits were never voted upon by our elected representatives. A combination of historical accident, decisions by judges and law professors, and self-interested advocacy by litigators has built an onerous and expensive legal regime. Finally, state and local officials may be accountable to their own voters, but some reach further afield, pursuing agendas to dictate the terms of national commerce. These new antifederalists are subjecting the citizens of Wyoming and Mississippi to the whims of the electorates of New York and San Francisco—contrary to the constitutional design. In these ways, the unelected have assumed substantial control of the American republic, upended the rule of law, given the United States the world’s costliest legal system, and inverted the Constitution’s federalism. Copland caps off his account with ideas for charting a corrective course back to democratic accountability.

Scholars of Tort Law

Author	: James Goudkamp
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2019-10-03
ISBN 10	: 9781509910588
Pages	: 424 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (99 users)

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Download or read book Scholars of Tort Law written by James Goudkamp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Scholars of Tort Law marks the beginning of a long overdue rebalancing of private law scholarship. Instead of concentrating on judicial decisions and academic commentary only for what that commentary says about judicial decisions, the book explores the contributions of scholars of tort law in their own right. The work of a selection of leading scholars of tort law from across the common law world, ranging from Thomas Cooley (1824–1898) to Patrick Atiyah (1931–2018), is addressed by eminent current scholars in the field. The focus of the contributions is on the nature of the work produced by each of the scholars in question, important influences on their work, and the influence which that work in turn had on thinking about tort law. The process of subjecting tort law scholarship to sustained analysis provides new insights into the intellectual development of tort law and reveals the important role played by scholars in that development. By focusing on the work of influential tort scholars, the book serves to emphasise the importance of legal scholarship to the development of the common law more generally.

New West

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1977
ISBN 10	: UCSC:32106020201510
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (321 users)

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The Summons The King of Torts

Author	: John Grisham
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 0091911079
Pages	: 881 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (11 users)

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Evidence Matters

Author	: Susan Haack
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2014-07-28
ISBN 10	: 9781139992664
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (399 users)

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Download or read book Evidence Matters written by Susan Haack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which cases sometimes turn? How are they to distinguish reliable scientific testimony from unreliable hokum? These interdisciplinary essays explore such questions about science, proof, and truth in the law. With her characteristic clarity and verve, Haack brings her original and distinctive work in theory of knowledge and philosophy of science to bear on real-life legal issues. She includes detailed analyses of a wide variety of cases and lucid summaries of relevant scientific work, of the many roles of the scientific peer-review system, and of relevant legal developments.

Revisiting John Grisham

Author	: Mary Beth Pringle
Publisher	: Greenwood
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015070697100
Pages	: 170 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

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Download or read book Revisiting John Grisham written by Mary Beth Pringle and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting John Grisham examines the novels published after John Grisham: A Critical Companion, from The Street Lawyer to The King of Torts and beyond.

A Time To Kill

Author	: John Grisham
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2010-04-21
ISBN 10	: 9781407059518
Pages	: 752 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book A Time To Kill written by John Grisham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ______________________________ THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as justice done, and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton - including the KKK - hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. A national media circus descends on Clanton. As tensions mount, Hailey hires the inexperienced Jake Brigance to defend him. It's the kind of case that could make a young lawyer's career. But it's also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed. ______________________________ The original, epoch-defining Jake Brigance novel. Brigance returns in SYCAMORE ROW and A TIME FOR MERCY. ______________________________ 'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent 'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction' - Jodi Picoult 'The best thriller writer alive' - Ken Follett 'John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers' - Telegraph 'Grisham is a superb, instinctive storyteller' - The Times 'Grisham's storytelling genius reminds us that when it comes to legal drama, the master is in a league of his own.' - Daily Record 'Masterful - when Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they're not just alive, they're pulsating' - Mirror 'A giant of the thriller genre' - TimeOut

Literature and Law

Author	: Mark Fortier
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2019-05-09
ISBN 10	: 9781351203814
Pages	: 194 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (512 users)

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Download or read book Literature and Law written by Mark Fortier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fields of literature and law intersect in frequent, and often surprising ways. This clear and concise book offers an introduction to the area, covering the history, key thinkers and ideas as well as detailed and fascinating studies into areas such as evidence and truth, inheritance, sex, vigilantism and justice. Each chapter examines a number of familiar authors and texts including Shakespeare, Brecht, Austen, Dickens, Ishiguro, Beecher-Stowe, Atwood, Miller. The book also opens up the broader study of law as it relates to culture in such areas as film, television, and digital media and how they affect such issues as a right to privacy, copyright and creative reworking, and censorship. Mark Fortier offers a concise, systemic introduction to the law and legal system for the lay person, covering basic notions of justice and law (fundamental justice, natural law, positive law) and the legal system (common law vs civil law, case law, statute, constitutional law, private law [tort, contract, property], criminal law, equity, basic rules of evidence, stare decisis, the adversarial system) as well as a very handy glossary of legal terms. This is a fascinating guide to a very topical and increasingly relevant area of literary studies.

Ice Storm

Author	: Bruce Dowbiggin
Publisher	: Greystone Books
Release Date	: 2014-10-04
ISBN 10	: 9781771641326
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (716 users)

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Download or read book Ice Storm written by Bruce Dowbiggin and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2014-10-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the Vancouver Canucks were Team Modern, revolutionizing the NHL under their new GM, former player agent Mike Gillis. Cool, calculating, and unsparing with the media, the onetime number one draft pick of the old Colorado Rockies swept away the tangled psychological past of the Canucks with bold innovation, remodeling Vancouver as a destination city for NHL star players. To do so, he built the Canucks from a non-playoff team in 2008 to the best in hockey from 2010-2012. He modernized the players' diets and psychological approach, he rebuilt the dressing room, and he sought sleep consultants to help with the Canucks' punishing travel schedule. More than that, his winning team lifted Vancouver from eighth overall in NHL revenues to second by 2013. When the team took to the ice for Game 7 of the 2011 Cup Final, it seemed there was nothing the Canucks couldn't overcome with their "Canucktivity" approach. The hockey world was at their feet. But things changed in Game 7. Physically exhausted and bullied by the Bruins, the Canucks succumbed 4-0. To cap the greatest season in team history, Vancouver rioted. Gillis tried a number of aggressive moves to get back to the Final, from switching Luongo for Schneider to trading players, but nothing worked. From there, the dominoes fell: Alain Vigneault was dismissed, John Tortorella hired; Tortorella raged, fans bayed for Gillis' head; and finally, Gillis and Tortorella were both fired. In spring 2014, tried-and-true Canuck hero Trevor Linden was installed as president, with former teammate Jim Benning by his side as GM. No one was quite sure if this was an improvement, but at least the hysterical screaming had stopped. How did it happen? Ice Storm follows the journey that led the Canucks from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the abyss in six short years.

Administrative Law

Author	: Timothy Endicott
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2011-06-30
ISBN 10	: 9780199601752
Pages	: 696 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (996 users)

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Download or read book Administrative Law written by Timothy Endicott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Administrative Law adopts a new approach to the subject: explaining the constitutional principles that underlie it and bringing unity to the diverse topics that students need to master to understand this complex branch of public law. The author's lively and analytical style encourages the development of a critical, questioning approach.

King of Torts

Author	: John Grisham
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 9675136391
Pages	: 372 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (363 users)

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Download or read book King of Torts written by John Grisham and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A public defender takes an unwanted murder case and stumbles across a horrible pharmaceutical conspiracy.